Im jake tapper. Were going to start this hour with the Breaking News moments ago, we got an update on her Hurricane Milton, which once again is im not happy to tell you, has strengthened to a category five storm. Was category for now its back to five and has 165 165 mile an ho sustained winds. It is expected to double in size before making landfall in florida. Nearly 20 Million people in the United States are currently in the path of Hurricane Milton. Its effects or already being felt. Parts of the Tampa Bay Area are gonna lose access to running water starting today, Gas Stations are running out of fuel as evacuees fill up their cars and tried to flee. Those riding out the storm are stocking Up To power their generators. Lets get straight to cnn Meteorologist Chad myers in a hurricane headquarters. Chad, it doesnt sound like this forecast is what we wanted it is not, it is. We saw all day and i talked to you about this at 4 00 this afternoon that the last plane left about three hours a
forecast. rick: hurricane hunters are flying in and out of the storm. they are finding it rapidly is strengthening. this is not good at all. it is 150 miles an hour. if it gets to 157. that is a cat-5. we have a few hours over really, really warm waters. on satellite presentation it looks more significant in anytime in the life cycle at this point. it is getting close to the coast. we re talking a storm surge in worst case of 11 to 16 feet. 11 to 16 feet, i m six feet tall, 2 1/2 of you. of additional water coming onshore that will wipe out everything in its path. everything down here across the southeastern louisiana coastline is not survivable in a storm like this. that storm surge will go farther inland as well. because the storm strengthened, that increases all threats along the coast. it increases storm surge coming towards the new orleans area.
yeah. i covered sandy on the ground up there. i hope this is nothing like that. what a privilege to get to speak to you up there, as you are gathering this information in real time. lieutenant commander robert mitchell, really appreciate it. thank you so much. let s bring in meteorologist tyler mauldin here in atlanta, bit closer to the ground. pretty cool to get to talk to him up there. and you will be using that information, pretty soon, by the sound of it. we will. we can actually get that um get that information as he mentioned in real-time. let me go over a couple of facts that expound on a couple of facts that that he mentioned there, as well. he mentioned that they are dealing with some turbulence which actually isn t normal with a hurricane. and that s due to dry air. you can see that dry air, right there. and that is the reason why the satellite presentation of henri henri is not that impressive, at the moment. he then mentioned four quadrants of the storm. if
janice? janice: we are seeing landfall right now we think in a matter of moments. so the center of circulation is what we look at coming across land. it s the lowest pressure point. it doesn t mean we are not going to seat same results though. it s just a matter for the history books. and if this storm makes a landfall across u.s. mainland, we think the best chance for that is going to be across cape hatteras. and it will probably happen within the next couple of minutes. that s the satellite presentation. let s switch over to the radar. and you can see the worst of the storm surge, the worst of the core of the hurricane force winds right here in the red here. right near ocracoke and hatteras. there is the center south of that let s take a look at the radar in motion here. yeah, i think we could be seeing landfall in a few minutes over cape hatteras and certainly keep you up to date. we will see the same results even if it doesn t make a landfall. and that is hurricane force winds. sto
really the main concern. it weakens, the winds expand the we will be able to the people mess we are going to see a want to come to florida, all the time to do all that stuff and a bigger storm system on the lot of great things coming out of the economy but safety really satellite presentation and possibly affecting even more land along the east coast of is number one. 90 miles from west palm beach to so we are obviously going to be the center of the storm, monitoring this the rest of the day, a lot of resources ready to tropical storm force winds that go, the feds have been great, a extend 140 miles away from the center and hurricane force winds lot of resources ready to go and 40 miles away from the center of hopefully by tonight, having a the storm. it is going to remain stationary for the next 12 hours and then sense of the movement and the we are going to see that weather where experts have said northward move but it is still which path they are wrong, going going to be moving so t